Resource Type: still image / Location: Pasadena (Calif.) / Subject: Dams--California--Pasadena - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Samuel Morris announcing with spectators behind him that he is quitting the Pasadena Water Department and taking a job as a teacher at Stanford. The speech looks to be given at the Morris Dam which was dedicated to him and Pasadena by Herbert Hoover for his 22 years of service at the Pasadena Water Department as Chief Engineer & General Manager.
Date:: April 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, “Huge Dam Dedicated,” Los Angeles Times, 27 May 1934: 10.
Date:: May 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Refer to article, "Huge Dam Dedicated -- Hoover Lauds Enterprise -- Pasadena Structure Viewed as America's Unconquerable Spirit -- Ex-President Commends All Who Toiled on Project in San Gabriel Canyon," Los Angeles Times, 27 May, 1934: 10.
Date:: May 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A crowd is gathered to hear former president Herbert Hoover deliver a speech at the Morris Dam dedication. Hoover can be seen on the platform in the left side of the photograph.
Date:: May 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Hoover stands at a podium and delivers a speech atop Morris Dam in Pasadena.
Date:: May 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Attendants of the Morris Dam dedication are gathered to see former president Herbert Hoover deliver an address. Several photographers and reporters are seen throughout the photograph.
Date:: May 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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